FotoWeek DC - 2009 Award Winners

• Contemporary Life - Winner
  Working Late at Connecticut and K Streets
  Category description: A single image with a lifestyle/human interest focus. Photography that presents a fresh view of everyday activities, relationships or emotion. Includes portrait and wedding photography.
  Photo info: Overworked attorneys appear to be drowning in their paperwork at 1700 K Street, NW, Washington, DC.
  
  
  

  Maxwell MacKenzie

• Travel - Student Winner
  On the Road Again
  Category description: A single image conveying sense of place; from exotic to backyard, urban to wild. Includes architecture, landscapes, waterscapes, aerials, wildlife.
  Photo info: Traveling between villages in the northwestern region of Armenia.
  
  
  

  Serli Hacikoglu

• News / Feature Reporting - Student Winner
  Darfur Struggle
  Category description: A single image with a documentary/reportage focus. This includes domestic and international spot or general news and issue reporting. Images may not be staged/posed, composites, multiple exposures, or digitally manipulated beyond the reality that existed when the image was made, except for reasonable dodging and burning.
  Photo info: A young refugee from Darfur struggles to keep his footing during a dust storm in eastern Chad. Since 2003, more than 250,000 men, women, and children have fled Darfur to the desolate and remote regions of eastern Chad.
  
  
  

  C. Gavin Jones

• Advertising Series - Winner
  Washington Ballet
  Category description: A series (up to 6 images, minimum of 3) created for the purpose of communicating or selling ideas, services, or products.
  
  
  

  Cade Martin

• Sports - Winner
  Shadows and Things Real
  Category description: A single image that reflects a moment in sports, games, and other competitive activities. Can be play-related (action) or non-action.
  Photo info: The first wave of racers swim in the Potomac River below the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument during the Nation's Triathlon in Washington, DC, Sept. 13, 2009.
  
  
  

  Brian W. Knight

• News / Feature Reporting - Winner
  Obama's Inaugural Walk
  Category description: A single image with a documentary/reportage focus. This includes domestic and international spot or general news and issue reporting. Images may not be staged/posed, composites, multiple exposures, or digitally manipulated beyond the reality that existed when the image was made, except for reasonable dodging and burning.
  
  
  

  Paul Morse

• Spirit of Washington - Winner
  Podesta Award, El Jefe's Homer
  Category description: This category was open to all photographers, 18 years of age and older. The challenge: with a single iconic image, capture the spirit and essence of Washington, D.C. Find the visual expression of what makes this city, our nation's capital, unique among American cities.
  
  
  
  

  Christopher Brownfield

• Advertising - Student Winner
  Baseball and Glove
  Category description: single image created for the purpose of communicating or selling ideas, services, or products.
  
  
  
  

  Tony Richards

• Advertising - Winner
  Fashion sCares
  Category description: A single image created for the purpose of communicating or selling ideas, services, or products.
  Photo info: Fashion sCares was an event for Fashion Cares which is a gala in support of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), with the goal of building awareness of HIV/AIDS and raising funds for ACT. A project of the local and international fashion and design industries, Fashion Cares has enjoyed the support of some of Canada's most progressive and successful corporations, such as M·A·C, The Bay, BMO Financial Group, Sears, Molson and Winners.
  
  
  
  

  Koby

• Fine Art - Winner
  Saccharine Perch
  Category description: A single image that has been created to fulfill the artistic vision of the photographer.
  
  
  
  

  Tom Chambers